Fix “Entry-Title” Error

Go to Appearance> Theme Editor in your WordPress Dashboard.
Open Single Post(Single.php) file.
Hit Find(Ctrl+F) in your editor and look for the_title(). Your can see it’s surrounded by an H1 or H2 tag.

Replace it with this. Just add class=”title entry-title” in the H1 tag.

Fix “Updated” Error

This error occurs because Google rich snippet wants to know when was the post updated. So, search for class=”date” in the single.php file and replace it with class=”date updated”.
In my case, it is class=”post-date updated”.

Fix Missing Field hCard Author Error

This tells Google who is the author of the post. Search for the_author() in the same file, and just modify the code like this:

Add the span class “vcard author” and “fn” and don’t forget to close it with </span> tag.

Now check the page again in the Google Rich Snippet Testing Tool and all the errors are gone.

Note: Editing single.php applies for single post alone (Home page still remains the same with warnings). But I’ve also noticed that Google is showing author information even on pages with warnings.

The codes explained above may not work for everyone. So, you can ask any issue you’re facing in comments.

Amit — The author/publisher stuff is all fine (rel=auth implemented), but the errors I get are regarding the hcard…

hentry
Warning: At least one field must be set for HatomEntry.
Warning: Missing required field “entry-title”.
Warning: Missing required field “updated”.
Warning: Missing required hCard “author”.
hentry

I don’t use Yoast or any SEO plugin since SEO is built-in with Genesis (and I’d prefer not to use these heavy plugins if I can avoid it).

Just checked your blog on Google Rich snippets testing tool and Google search. Your Google+ profile link with your photo is already showing below your blog links in search results. So, there’s no need to fix the errors. But still if you want to do it, the fix is same for sure as explained above. But because genesis framework is different, you need to do the changes in functions.php maybe. I need to work on genesis framework and then will get back to you.

Okay, thanks. I knew my author info was showing up properly in search results, but since these errors came up I didn’t know if there was something else that could be appearing (or if Google preferred to see things in a different way). Just trying to take advantage if there’s anything else I should be doing!

No, image should show in the Google search results. Tell me your site URL, I’ll look into it.

Gilles

Hi,
Is there someone who can help me? For days I’m trying to connect my google+ page to my website and it won’t work. Each time I get the Warning: missing required hCard “author”. I already changed code in single.php but no result.
Is there anyone who can help me?
Thanks a lot!

What I’m trying to do is to get my company picture in the google search results and more information on the right hand side (like in the picture). So I thought that when I link my website to my google+ business page that would be OK?

But on every tutorial I found that I have to link to my site in the section “contributor to” in my google+ page. But in my business page there is no section like that. This is the case in my personal google+ page. Maybe thats the reason of the problem? I’m trying already for days and no results :-s.

Hi, guys. That post helped me partially. Class=”date” and the_author() don’t exist in my single.php. Is it possible to create them? If yes, how would it look like?
Please, look at this image. Does anybody know how to fix the errors?